June 25. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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of their possessions. In 1534, by an act of the legis- 

 lature, the Order of St. John was abolished in tlie 

 King of England's dominions ; and such knights as 

 survived the persecution, but who refused to stoop to 

 the conditions offered them, were thrown entirely on 

 the charity of their brethren at Malta. Henry offered 

 Sir Wm. Weston, Lord Prior of England, a pension 

 of a thousand pounds a year ; but that knight was so 

 overwhelmed w ith grief at the suppression of his Order, 

 that he never received a penny, but soon after died. 

 Other knights, less scrupulous, became pensioners of 

 the crown." 



w.w. 



La Valetta, Malta. 



3RcpItc^ to :^taor ^ucriea. 



Anticipatory Worship of the Cross (Vol. vii., 

 p. 548.). — A correspondent wishes for farther in- 

 formation on the anticipatory worship of the cross 

 in Mexico and at Alexandria. At the present 

 moment I am unable to refer to the works on 

 which I grounded the statement which he quotes. 

 He will, however, find the details respecting 

 Mexico in Stephens's Travels in Yucatan ; and 

 those respecting Alexandria in the commentators 

 on Sozomen (H. JE., vii. 15.), and Socrates 

 (-?/. ii., V. 16.). A similar instance is the worship 

 of the C?-oss Fylfotte in Thibet. 



The Writer of " Communications with 

 THE Unseen Woeld." 



Ennui (Vol. vii., p. 478.). — 



«' Cleland (voc. 165.) has, with his usual sagacity, 

 and with a great deal of trouble, as he himself ac- 

 knowledges, traced out the true meaning and deri- 

 vation of this word ; for after he had long despaired 

 of discovering the origin of it, mere chance, he says, 

 offered to him what he took to be the genuine one : 

 ' In an old French book I met,' says he, ' with a pas- 

 sage where the author, speaking of a company that 

 had sat up late, makes use of this expression, " I'ennuit 

 les avoit gagnes," by the context of which it was plain 

 he meant, that the common influence of the night, in 

 bringing on heaviness and yawning, had come upon 

 them. The proper sense is totally antiquated, but the 



iigurative remains in full currency to this day.'" 



Lemon's Etymological Dictionary. 



The true synonym of ennui seems to be tcedium, 

 which appears to have the same relation to tcedo, 

 a torch, as eniiui to nuit. B. H. C. 



" Qui facit per alium, facit per se," Sfc. (Vol. vii., 

 p. 488.). — This maxim is found in the following 

 form in the Regulce Juris, subjoined to the 6th 

 Book of the Decretals, Reg. Ixxil. : " Qui facit 

 per alium, est perinde ac si faciat per seipsum." 



J.B. 



English knights, whom Sutherland thus mentions as 

 having fled to Malta at the time of this persecution in 

 their native land. 



Vincent Family (Vol. vii., pp. 501. 586.). — The 

 Memoir of Augustine Vincent, referred to by Mb. 

 Martin, was written by the late Sir N. Harris 

 Nicolas, and published by Pickering in 1827, 

 crown Svo. Shortly after its publication, a few 

 pages of Addenda were pointed in consequence 

 of some information communicated by the Rev. 

 Joseph Hunter, respecting the descendants of 

 Augustine Vincent. At that time Francis Offley 

 Edmunds, Esq., of Westborough, was his repre- 

 sentative. G. 



Judge Smith (Vol. vii., pp. 463. 508.). — I sm 

 well acquainted with the monumental inscriptions 

 in Chesterfield Church, but I do not recollect one 

 to the memory of Judge Smith. 



Thomas Smith, who was an attorney in Sheffield, 

 and died in 1774, had a brother, William Smith of 

 Norwich, who died in 1801. Thomas Smith mar- 

 ried Susan Battie, by whom he had a son Thomas 

 Smith of Sheffield, and after of Dunston Hall, 

 who married in 1791 Elizabeth Mary, only sur- 

 viving child of Robert Mower of Woodseats, Esq., 

 (by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Milnes 

 of Dunston Hall, Esq.) It was through this lady 

 that the Dunston estate came to the Smiths by 

 the will of her uncle Mr. Milnes. Mr. Smith died 

 in 1811, having had issue by her (who married 

 secondly John Frederick Smith, Esq., of London) 

 three sons and several daughters. The second 

 son (Rev. Wm. Smith of Dunston Hall) died in 

 1841, leaving male issue ; but I am not aware of the 

 death of either of the others. The family had a 

 grant of arms in 1816. Dunston Hall had be- 

 longed to the Milnes family for about a century. 



W. St. 



" Di7nidiation" in Impalements (Vol. vii., p. 548.). 

 — In reply to your correspondent's Query as to 

 dimidiation, he will find that this was the most 

 ancient form of impalement. Its manifest incon- 

 venience no doubt at last banished it. Guillim 

 (ed. 1724) says, at p. 425. : 



" It was an ancient way of impaling, to take half the 

 husband's coat, and with that to joyn as much of the 

 wife's ; as appeareth in an old roll, wherein three lions, 

 being the arms of England, are dimidiated and impaled 

 with half the pales of Arragon. The like hath been 

 practised with quartered coats by leaving out half of 

 them." 



On p. 426. he gives the example of Mary, 

 Henry VIII.'s sister, and her husband Louis XII. 

 of France. Here the French king's coat is cut in 

 half, so that the lily in the base point is dimidiated; 

 and thd; queen's coat, being quarterly France and 

 England, shows two quarters only ; England in 

 chief, France in base. 



Sandford, in his Genealogical History, gives a 

 plate of the tomb of Henry II. and Richard I. of 

 England at Foutevrault, which was built anew ia 



